The next commit will need to use the bitmap's MIDX (if one exists) to
translate bit positions into pack-relative positions in the source pack.
Ordinarily, we'd use the "midx" field of the bitmap_index struct. But
since that struct is defined within pack-bitmap.c, and our caller is in
a separate compilation unit, we do not have access to the MIDX field.
Instead, add a "from_midx" field to the bitmapped_pack structure so that
we can use that piece of data from outside of pack-bitmap.c. The caller
that uses this new piece of information will be added in the following
commit.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar fashion as the previous commit, drop a redundant argument
from the `bitmap_writer_finish()` function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar fashion as the previous commit, drop a redundant argument
from the `bitmap_writer_build()` function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit ensures that the bitmap_writer's "to_pack" field is
initialized early on, so the "to_pack" and "index_nr" arguments to
`bitmap_writer_build_type_index()` are redundant.
Drop them and adjust the callers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to determine its object order, the pack-bitmap machinery keeps
a 'struct packing_data' corresponding to the pack or pseudo-pack (when
writing a MIDX bitmap) being written.
The to_pack field is provided to the bitmap machinery by callers of
bitmap_writer_build() and assigned to the bitmap_writer struct at that
point.
But a subsequent commit will want to have access to that data earlier on
during commit selection. Prepare for that by adding a 'to_pack' argument
to 'bitmap_writer_init()', and initializing the field during that
function.
Subsequent commits will clean up other functions which take
now-redundant arguments (like nr_objects, which is equivalent to
pdata->objects_nr, or pdata itself).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch implements support for reusing existing pseudo-merge commits
when writing bitmaps when there is an existing pseudo-merge bitmap which
has exactly the same set of parents as one that we are about to write.
Note that unstable pseudo-merges are likely to change between
consecutive repacks, and so are generally poor candidates for reuse.
However, stable pseudo-merges (see the configuration option
'bitmapPseudoMerge.<name>.stableThreshold') are by definition unlikely
to change between runs (as they represent long-running branches).
Because there is no index from a *set* of pseudo-merge parents to a
matching pseudo-merge bitmap, we have to construct the bitmap
corresponding to the set of parents for each pending pseudo-merge commit
and see if a matching bitmap exists.
This is technically quadratic in the number of pseudo-merges, but is OK
in practice for a couple of reasons:
- non-matching pseudo-merge bitmaps are rejected quickly as soon as
they differ in a single bit
- already-matched pseudo-merge bitmaps are discarded from subsequent
rounds of search
- the number of pseudo-merges is generally small, even for large
repositories
In order to do this, implement (a) a function that finds a matching
pseudo-merge given some uncompressed bitset describing its parents, (b)
a function that computes the bitset of parents for a given pseudo-merge
commit, and (c) call that function before computing the set of reachable
objects for some pending pseudo-merge.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement three new sub-commands for the "bitmap" test-helper:
- t/helper test-tool bitmap dump-pseudo-merges
- t/helper test-tool bitmap dump-pseudo-merge-commits <n>
- t/helper test-tool bitmap dump-pseudo-merge-objects <n>
These three helpers dump the list of pseudo merges, the "parents" of the
nth pseudo-merges, and the set of objects reachable from those parents,
respectively.
These helpers will be useful in subsequent patches when we add test
coverage for pseudo-merge bitmaps.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap machinery uses the `read_bitmap_1()` function to read a
bitmap from within the mmap'd region corresponding to the .bitmap file.
As as side-effect of calling this function, `read_bitmap_1()` increments
the `index->map_pos` variable to reflect the number of bytes read.
Extract the core of this routine to a separate function (that operates
over a `const unsigned char *`, a `size_t` and a `size_t *` pointer)
instead of a `struct bitmap_index *` pointer.
This function (called `read_bitmap()`) is part of the pack-bitmap.h API
so that it can be used within the upcoming portion of the implementation
in pseduo-merge.ch.
Rewrite the existing function, `read_bitmap_1()`, in terms of its more
generic counterpart.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the pack-bitmap writer machinery understands how to select and
store pseudo-merge commits, teach it how to write the new optional
pseudo-merge .bitmap extension.
No readers yet exist for this new extension to the .bitmap format. The
following commits will take any preparatory step(s) necessary before
then implementing the routines necessary to read this new table.
In the meantime, the new `write_pseudo_merges()` function implements
writing this new format as described by a previous commit in
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt.
Writing this table is fairly straightforward and consists of a few
sub-components:
- a pair of bitmaps for each pseudo-merge (one for the pseudo-merge
"parents", and another for the objects reachable from those parents)
- for each commit, the offset of either (a) the pseudo-merge it
belongs to, or (b) an extended lookup table if it belongs to >1
pseudo-merge groups
- if there are any commits belonging to >1 pseudo-merge group, the
extended lookup tables (which each consist of the number of
pseudo-merge groups a commit appears in, and then that many 4-byte
unsigned )
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the new pseudo-merge machinery how to select non-bitmapped commits
for inclusion in different pseudo-merge group(s) based on a handful of
criteria.
Note that the selected pseudo-merge commits aren't actually used or
written anywhere yet. This will be done in the following commit.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pseudo-merge selection code will be added in a subsequent commit,
and will need a way to push the allocated commit structures into the
bitmap writer from a separate compilation unit.
Make the `bitmap_writer_push_bitmapped_commit()` function part of the
pack-bitmap.h header in order to make this possible.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to implement pseudo-merge bitmap selection by implementing a
necessary new function, `bitmap_writer_has_bitmapped_object_id()`.
This function returns whether or not the bitmap_writer selected the
given object ID for bitmapping. This will allow the pseudo-merge
machinery to reject candidates for pseudo-merges if they have already
been selected as an ordinary bitmap tip.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to write pseudo-merge bitmaps by annotating individual bitmapped
commits (which are represented by the `bitmapped_commit` structure) with
an extra bit indicating whether or not they are a pseudo-merge.
In subsequent commits, pseudo-merge bitmaps will be generated by
allocating a fake commit node with parents covering the full set of
commits represented by the pseudo-merge bitmap. These commits will be
added to the set of "selected" commits as usual, but will be written
specially instead of being included with the rest of the selected
commits.
Mechanically speaking, there are two parts of this change:
- The bitmapped_commit struct gets a new bit indicating whether it is
a pseudo-merge, or an ordinary commit selected for bitmaps.
- A handful of changes to only write out the non-pseudo-merge commits
when enumerating through the selected array (see the new
`bitmap_writer_selected_nr()` function). Pseudo-merge commits appear
after all non-pseudo-merge commits, so it is safe to enumerate
through the selected array like so:
for (i = 0; i < bitmap_writer_selected_nr(); i++)
if (writer.selected[i].pseudo_merge)
BUG("unexpected pseudo-merge");
without encountering the BUG().
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap-writer machinery uses a oidmap (backed by khash.h) to
map from commits selected for bitmaps (by OID) to a bitmapped_commit
structure (containing the bitmap itself, among other things like its XOR
offset, etc.)
This map was initialized at the end of `bitmap_writer_build()`. New
entries are added in `pack-bitmap-write.c::store_selected()`, which is
called by the bitmap_builder machinery (which is responsible for
traversing history and generating the actual bitmaps).
Reorganize when this field is initialized and when entries are added to
it so that we can quickly determine whether a commit is a candidate for
pseudo-merge selection, or not (since it was already selected to receive
a bitmap, and thus storing it in a pseudo-merge would be redundant).
The changes are as follows:
- Introduce a new `bitmap_writer_init()` function which initializes
the `writer.bitmaps` field (instead of waiting until the end of
`bitmap_writer_build()`).
- Add map entries in `push_bitmapped_commit()` (which is called via
`bitmap_writer_select_commits()`) with OID keys and NULL values to
track whether or not we *expect* to write a bitmap for some given
commit.
- Validate that a NULL entry is found matching the given key when we
store a selected bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that there is clearer memory ownership around the bitmap_writer
structure, introduce a bitmap_writer_free() function that callers may
use to free any memory associated with their instance of the
bitmap_writer structure.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `max_bitmaps` parameter in `bitmap_writer_select_commits()` was
introduced back in 7cc8f97108 (pack-objects: implement bitmap writing,
2013-12-21), making it original to the bitmap implementation in Git
itself.
When that patch was merged via 0f9e62e084 (Merge branch
'jk/pack-bitmap', 2014-02-27), its sole caller in builtin/pack-objects.c
passed a value of "-1" for `max_bitmaps`, indicating no limit.
Since then, the only other caller (in midx.c, added via c528e17966
(pack-bitmap: write multi-pack bitmaps, 2021-08-31)) also uses a value
of "-1" for `max_bitmaps`.
Since no callers have needed a finite limit for the `max_bitmaps`
parameter in the nearly decade that has passed since 0f9e62e084, let's
remove the parameter and any dead pieces of code connected to it.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap machinery uses a structure called 'bitmap_writer' to
collect the data necessary to write out .bitmap files. Since its
introduction in 7cc8f971085 (pack-objects: implement bitmap writing,
2013-12-21), there has been a single static bitmap_writer structure,
which is responsible for all bitmap writing-related operations.
In practice, this is OK, since we are only ever writing a single .bitmap
file in a single process (e.g., `git multi-pack-index write --bitmap`,
`git pack-objects --write-bitmap-index`, `git repack -b`, etc.).
However, having a single static variable makes issues like data
ownership unclear, when to free variables, what has/hasn't been
initialized unclear.
Refactor this code to be written in terms of a given bitmap_writer
structure instead of relying on a static global.
Note that this exposes the structure definition of the bitmap_writer at
the pack-bitmap.h level. We could work around this by, e.g., forcing
callers to declare their writers as:
struct bitmap_writer *writer;
bitmap_writer_init(&bitmap_writer);
and then declaring `bitmap_writer_init()` as taking in a double-pointer
like so:
void bitmap_writer_init(struct bitmap_writer **writer);
which would avoid us having to expose the definition of the structure
itself. This patch takes a different approach, since future patches
(like for the ongoing pseudo-merge bitmaps work) will want to modify the
innards of this structure (in the previous example, via pseudo-merge.c).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that both the pack-bitmap and pack-objects code are prepared to
handle marking and using objects from multiple bitmapped packs for
verbatim reuse, allow marking objects from all bitmapped packs as
eligible for reuse.
Within the `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` function, we no longer
only mark the pack whose first object is at bit position zero for reuse,
and instead mark any pack contained in the MIDX as a reuse candidate.
Provide a handful of test cases in a new script (t5332) exercising
interesting behavior for multi-pack reuse to ensure that we performed
all of the previous steps correctly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When performing a binary search over the objects in a MIDX's bitmap
(i.e. in pseudo-pack order), the reader reconstructs the pseudo-pack
ordering using a combination of (a) the preferred pack, (b) the pack's
lexical position in the MIDX based on pack names, and (c) the object
offset within the pack.
In order to perform this binary search, the reader must know the
identity of the preferred pack. This could be stored in the MIDX, but
isn't for historical reasons, mostly because it can easily be inferred
at read-time by looking at the object in the first bit position and
finding out which pack it was selected from in the MIDX, like so:
nth_midxed_pack_int_id(m, pack_pos_to_midx(m, 0));
In midx_to_pack_pos() which performs this binary search, we look up the
identity of the preferred pack before each search. This is relatively
quick, since it involves two table-driven lookups (one in the MIDX's
revindex for `pack_pos_to_midx()`, and another in the MIDX's object
table for `nth_midxed_pack_int_id()`).
But since the preferred pack does not change after the MIDX is written,
it is safe to cache this value on the MIDX itself.
Write a helper to do just that, and rewrite all of the existing
call-sites that care about the identity of the preferred pack in terms
of this new helper.
This will prepare us for a subsequent patch where we will need to binary
search through the MIDX's pseudo-pack order multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further prepare for enabling verbatim pack-reuse over multiple packfiles
by changing the signature of reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap() to
populate an array of `struct bitmapped_pack *`'s instead of a pointer to
a single packfile.
Since the array we're filling out is sized dynamically[^1], add an
additional `size_t *` parameter which will hold the number of reusable
packs (equal to the number of elements in the array).
Note that since we still have not implemented true multi-pack reuse,
these changes aren't propagated out to the rest of the caller in
builtin/pack-objects.c.
In the interim state, we expect that the array has a single element, and
we use that element to fill out the static `reuse_packfile` variable
(which is a bog-standard `struct packed_git *`). Future commits will
continue to push this change further out through the pack-objects code.
[^1]: That is, even though we know the number of packs which are
candidates for pack-reuse, we do not know how many of those
candidates we can actually reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The signature of `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` currently takes
in a bitmap, as well as three output parameters (filled through
pointers, and passed as arguments), and also returns an integer result.
The output parameters are filled out with: (a) the packfile used for
pack-reuse, (b) the number of objects from that pack that we can reuse,
and (c) a bitmap indicating which objects we can reuse. The return value
is either -1 (when there are no objects to reuse), or 0 (when there is
at least one object to reuse).
Some of these parameters are redundant. Notably, we can infer from the
bitmap how many objects are reused by calling bitmap_popcount(). And we
can similar compute the return value based on that number as well.
As such, clean up the signature of this function to drop the "*entries"
parameter, as well as the int return value, since the single caller of
this function can infer these values themself.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a multi-pack bitmap is used to implement verbatim pack reuse (that
is, when verbatim chunks from an on-disk packfile are copied
directly[^1]), it does so by using its "preferred pack" as the source
for pack-reuse.
This allows repositories to pack the majority of their objects into a
single (often large) pack, and then use it as the single source for
verbatim pack reuse. This increases the amount of objects that are
reused verbatim (and consequently, decrease the amount of time it takes
to generate many packs). But this performance comes at a cost, which is
that the preferred packfile must pace its growth with that of the entire
repository in order to maintain the utility of verbatim pack reuse.
As repositories grow beyond what we can reasonably store in a single
packfile, the utility of verbatim pack reuse diminishes. Or, at the very
least, it becomes increasingly more expensive to maintain as the pack
grows larger and larger.
It would be beneficial to be able to perform this same optimization over
multiple packs, provided some modest constraints (most importantly, that
the set of packs eligible for verbatim reuse are disjoint with respect
to the subset of their objects being sent).
If we assume that the packs which we treat as candidates for verbatim
reuse are disjoint with respect to any of their objects we may output,
we need to make only modest modifications to the verbatim pack-reuse
code itself. Most notably, we need to remove the assumption that the
bits in the reachability bitmap corresponding to objects from the single
reuse pack begin at the first bit position.
Future patches will unwind these assumptions and reimplement their
existing functionality as special cases of the more general assumptions
(e.g. that reuse bits can start anywhere within the bitset, but happen
to start at 0 for all existing cases).
This patch does not yet relax any of those assumptions. Instead, it
implements a foundational data-structure, the "Bitampped Packs" (`BTMP`)
chunk of the multi-pack index. The `BTMP` chunk's contents are described
in detail here. Importantly, the `BTMP` chunk contains information to
map regions of a multi-pack index's reachability bitmap to the packs
whose objects they represent.
For now, this chunk is only written, not read (outside of the test-tool
used in this patch to test the new chunk's behavior). Future patches
will begin to make use of this new chunk.
[^1]: Modulo patching any `OFS_DELTA`'s that cross over a region of the
pack that wasn't used verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The object traversal using reachability bitmap done by
"pack-object" has been tweaked to take advantage of the fact that
using "boundary" commits as representative of all the uninteresting
ones can save quite a lot of object enumeration.
* tb/pack-bitmap-traversal-with-boundary:
pack-bitmap.c: use commit boundary during bitmap traversal
pack-bitmap.c: extract `fill_in_bitmap()`
object: add object_array initializer helper function
When reachability bitmap coverage exists in a repository, Git will use a
different (and hopefully faster) traversal to compute revision walks.
Consider a set of positive and negative tips (which we'll refer to with
their standard bitmap parlance by "wants", and "haves"). In order to
figure out what objects exist between the tips, the existing traversal
in `prepare_bitmap_walk()` does something like:
1. Consider if we can even compute the set of objects with bitmaps,
and fall back to the usual traversal if we cannot. For example,
pathspec limiting traversals can't be computed using bitmaps (since
they don't know which objects are at which paths). The same is true
of certain kinds of non-trivial object filters.
2. If we can compute the traversal with bitmaps, partition the
(dereferenced) tips into two object lists, "haves", and "wants",
based on whether or not the objects have the UNINTERESTING flag,
respectively.
3. Fall back to the ordinary object traversal if either (a) there are
more than zero haves, none of which are in the bitmapped pack or
MIDX, or (b) there are no wants.
4. Construct a reachability bitmap for the "haves" side by walking
from the revision tips down to any existing bitmaps, OR-ing in any
bitmaps as they are found.
5. Then do the same for the "wants" side, stopping at any objects that
appear in the "haves" bitmap.
6. Filter the results if any object filter (that can be easily
computed with bitmaps alone) was given, and then return back to the
caller.
When there is good bitmap coverage relative to the traversal tips, this
walk is often significantly faster than an ordinary object traversal
because it can visit far fewer objects.
But in certain cases, it can be significantly *slower* than the usual
object traversal. Why? Because we need to compute complete bitmaps on
either side of the walk. If either one (or both) of the sides require
walking many (or all!) objects before they get to an existing bitmap,
the extra bitmap machinery is mostly or all overhead.
One of the benefits, however, is that even if the walk is slower, bitmap
traversals are guaranteed to provide an *exact* answer. Unlike the
traditional object traversal algorithm, which can over-count the results
by not opening trees for older commits, the bitmap walk builds an exact
reachability bitmap for either side, meaning the results are never
over-counted.
But producing non-exact results is OK for our traversal here (both in
the bitmap case and not), as long as the results are over-counted, not
under.
Relaxing the bitmap traversal to allow it to produce over-counted
results gives us the opportunity to make some significant improvements.
Instead of the above, the new algorithm only has to walk from the
*boundary* down to the nearest bitmap, instead of from each of the
UNINTERESTING tips.
The boundary-based approach still has degenerate cases, but we'll show
in a moment that it is often a significant improvement.
The new algorithm works as follows:
1. Build a (partial) bitmap of the haves side by first OR-ing any
bitmap(s) that already exist for UNINTERESTING commits between the
haves and the boundary.
2. For each commit along the boundary, add it as a fill-in traversal
tip (where the traversal terminates once an existing bitmap is
found), and perform fill-in traversal.
3. Build up a complete bitmap of the wants side as usual, stopping any
time we intersect the (partial) haves side.
4. Return the results.
And is more-or-less equivalent to using the *old* algorithm with this
invocation:
$ git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index $WANTS --not \
$(git rev-list --objects --boundary $WANTS --not $HAVES |
perl -lne 'print $1 if /^-(.*)/')
The new result performs significantly better in many cases, particularly
when the distance from the boundary commit(s) to an existing bitmap is
shorter than the distance from (all of) the have tips to the nearest
bitmapped commit.
Note that when using the old bitmap traversal algorithm, the results can
be *slower* than without bitmaps! Under the new algorithm, the result is
computed faster with bitmaps than without (at the cost of over-counting
the true number of objects in a similar fashion as the non-bitmap
traversal):
# (Computing the number of tagged objects not on any branches
# without bitmaps).
$ time git rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches
20
real 0m1.388s
user 0m1.092s
sys 0m0.296s
# (Computing the same query using the old bitmap traversal).
$ time git rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches --use-bitmap-index
19
real 0m22.709s
user 0m21.628s
sys 0m1.076s
# (this commit)
$ time git.compile rev-list --count --objects --tags --not --branches --use-bitmap-index
19
real 0m1.518s
user 0m1.234s
sys 0m0.284s
The new algorithm is still slower than not using bitmaps at all, but it
is nearly a 15-fold improvement over the existing traversal.
In a more realistic setting (using my local copy of git.git), I can
observe a similar (if more modest) speed-up:
$ argv="--count --objects --branches --not --tags"
hyperfine \
-n 'no bitmaps' "git.compile rev-list $argv" \
-n 'existing traversal' "git.compile rev-list --use-bitmap-index $argv" \
-n 'boundary traversal' "git.compile -c pack.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal=true rev-list --use-bitmap-index $argv"
Benchmark 1: no bitmaps
Time (mean ± σ): 124.6 ms ± 2.1 ms [User: 103.7 ms, System: 20.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 122.6 ms … 133.1 ms 22 runs
Benchmark 2: existing traversal
Time (mean ± σ): 368.6 ms ± 3.0 ms [User: 325.3 ms, System: 43.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 365.1 ms … 374.8 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 3: boundary traversal
Time (mean ± σ): 167.6 ms ± 0.9 ms [User: 139.5 ms, System: 27.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 166.1 ms … 169.2 ms 17 runs
Summary
'no bitmaps' ran
1.34 ± 0.02 times faster than 'boundary traversal'
2.96 ± 0.05 times faster than 'existing traversal'
Here, the new algorithm is also still slower than not using bitmaps, but
represents a more than 2-fold improvement over the existing traversal in
a more modest example.
Since this algorithm was originally written (nearly a year and a half
ago, at the time of writing), the bitmap lookup table shipped, making
the new algorithm's result more competitive. A few other future
directions for improving bitmap traversal times beyond not using bitmaps
at all:
- Decrease the cost to decompress and OR together many bitmaps
together (particularly when enumerating the uninteresting side of
the walk). Here we could explore more efficient bitmap storage
techniques, like Roaring+Run and/or use SIMD instructions to speed
up ORing them together.
- Store pseudo-merge bitmaps, which could allow us to OR together
fewer "summary" bitmaps (which would also help with the above).
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a filesystem-level corruption occurs in a .bitmap file, Git can react
poorly. This could take the form of a run-time error due to failing to
parse an EWAH bitmap or be more subtle such as returning the wrong set
of objects to a fetch or clone.
A natural first response to either of these kinds of errors is to run
'git fsck' to see if any files are corrupt. This currently ignores all
.bitmap files.
Add checks to 'git fsck' for all .bitmap files that are currently
associated with a multi-pack-index or pack file. Verify their checksums
using the hashfile API.
We iterate through all multi-pack-indexes and pack-files to be sure to
check all .bitmap files, not just the one that would be read by the
process. For example, a multi-pack-index bitmap overrules a pack-bitmap.
However, if the multi-pack-index is removed, the pack-bitmap may be
selected instead. Be thorough to include every file that could become
active in such a way. This includes checking files in alternates.
There is potential that we could extend this effort to check the
structure of the reachability bitmaps themselves, but it is very
expensive to do so. At minimum, it's as expensive as generating the
bitmaps in the first place, and that's assuming that we don't use the
trivial algorithm of verifying each bitmap individually. The trivial
algorithm will result in quadratic behavior (number of objects times
number of bitmapped commits) while the bitmap building operation
constructs a lattice of commits to build bitmaps incrementally and then
generate the final bitmaps from a subset of those commits.
If we were to extend 'git fsck' to check .bitmap file contents more
closely like this, then we would likely want to hide it behind an option
that signals the user is more willing to do expensive operations such as
this.
For testing, set up a repository with a pack-bitmap _and_ a
multi-pack-index bitmap. This requires some file movement to avoid
deleting the pack-bitmap during the repack that creates the
multi-pack-index bitmap. We can then verify that 'git fsck' is checking
all files, not just the "active" bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier change teaches Git to write bitmap lookup table. But Git
does not know how to parse them.
Teach Git to parse the existing bitmap lookup table. The older
versions of Git are not affected by it. Those versions ignore the
lookup table.
Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Co-Mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bitmap lookup table extension was documented by an earlier
change, but Git does not yet know how to write that extension.
Teach Git to write bitmap lookup table extension. The table contains
the list of `N` <commit_pos, offset, xor_row>` triplets. These
triplets are sorted according to their commit pos (ascending order).
The meaning of each data in the i'th triplet is given below:
- commit_pos stores commit position (in the pack-index or midx).
It is a 4 byte network byte order unsigned integer.
- offset is the position (in the bitmap file) from which that
commit's bitmap can be read.
- xor_row is the position of the triplet in the lookup table
whose bitmap is used to compress this bitmap, or `0xffffffff`
if no such bitmap exists.
Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Co-mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next change will use a const array when calling this method. There
is no need for the non-const version, so let's do this cleanup quickly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that all consumers of prepare_bitmap_walk() have populated the
'filter' member of 'struct rev_info', we can drop that extra parameter
from the method and access it directly from the 'struct rev_info'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
bitmaps.
* tb/repack-write-midx:
test-read-midx: fix leak of bitmap_index struct
builtin/repack.c: pass `--refs-snapshot` when writing bitmaps
builtin/repack.c: make largest pack preferred
builtin/repack.c: support writing a MIDX while repacking
builtin/repack.c: extract showing progress to a variable
builtin/repack.c: rename variables that deal with non-kept packs
builtin/repack.c: keep track of existing packs unconditionally
midx: preliminary support for `--refs-snapshot`
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: support `--stdin-packs` mode
midx: expose `write_midx_file_only()` publicly
When repacking into a geometric series and writing a multi-pack bitmap,
it is beneficial to have the largest resulting pack be the preferred
object source in the bitmap's MIDX, since selecting the large packs can
lead to fewer broken delta chains and better compression.
Teach 'git repack' to identify this pack and pass it to the MIDX write
machinery in order to mark it as preferred.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-bitmap writer code is about to learn how to propagate values
from an existing hash-cache. To prepare, teach the test-bitmap helper to
dump the values from a bitmap's hash-cache extension in order to test
those changes.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We never look at the repository argument which is passed. This makes
sense, since the multi_pack_index struct already tells us everything we
need to access the files in its associated object directory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prepares the code in pack-bitmap to interpret the new multi-pack
bitmaps described in Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, which
mostly involves converting bit positions to accommodate looking them up
in a MIDX.
Note that there are currently no writers who write multi-pack bitmaps,
and that this will be implemented in the subsequent commit. Note also
that get_midx_checksum() and get_midx_filename() are made non-static so
they can be called from pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a recent commit, pack-objects learned support for the
'pack.preferBitmapTips' configuration. This patch prepares the
multi-pack bitmap code to respect this configuration, too.
The yet-to-be implemented code will find that it is more efficient to
check whether each reference contains a prefix found in the configured
set of values rather than doing an additional traversal.
Implement a function 'bitmap_is_preferred_refname()' which will perform
that check. Its caller will be added in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The set of objects covered by a bitmap must be closed under
reachability, since it must be the case that there is a valid bit
position assigned for every possible reachable object (otherwise the
bitmaps would be incomplete).
Pack bitmaps are never written from 'git repack' unless repacking
all-into-one, and so we never write non-closed bitmaps (except in the
case of partial clones where we aren't guaranteed to have all objects).
But multi-pack bitmaps change this, since it isn't known whether the
set of objects in the MIDX is closed under reachability until walking
them. Plumb through a bit that is set when a reachable object isn't
found.
As soon as a reachable object isn't found in the set of objects to
include in the bitmap, bitmap_writer_build() knows that the set is not
closed, and so it now fails gracefully.
A test is added in t0410 to trigger a bitmap write without full
reachability closure by removing local copies of some reachable objects
from a promisor remote.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option,
which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the
packfile generated by pack-objects.
* ps/rev-list-object-type-filter:
rev-list: allow filtering of provided items
pack-bitmap: implement combined filter
pack-bitmap: implement object type filter
list-objects: implement object type filter
list-objects: support filtering by tag and commit
list-objects: move tag processing into its own function
revision: mark commit parents as NOT_USER_GIVEN
uploadpack.txt: document implication of `uploadpackfilter.allow`
When providing an object filter, it is currently impossible to also
filter provided items. E.g. when executing `git rev-list HEAD` , the
commit this reference points to will be treated as user-provided and is
thus excluded from the filtering mechanism. This makes it harder than
necessary to properly use the new `--filter=object:type` filter given
that even if the user wants to only see blobs, he'll still see commits
of provided references.
Improve this by introducing a new `--filter-provided-objects` option
to the git-rev-parse(1) command. If given, then all user-provided
references will be subject to filtering.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing a new pack with a bitmap, it is sometimes convenient to
indicate some reference prefixes which should receive priority when
selecting which commits to receive bitmaps.
A truly motivated caller could accomplish this by setting
'pack.islandCore', (since all commits in the core island are similarly
marked as preferred) but this requires callers to opt into using delta
islands, which they may or may not want to do.
Introduce a new multi-valued configuration, 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to
allow callers to specify a list of reference prefixes. All references
which have a prefix contained in 'pack.preferBitmapTips' will mark their
tips as "preferred" in the same way as commits are marked as preferred
for selection by 'pack.islandCore'.
The choice of the verb "prefer" is intentional: marking the NEEDS_BITMAP
flag on an object does *not* guarantee that that object will receive a
bitmap. It merely guarantees that that commit will receive a bitmap over
any *other* commit in the same window by bitmap_writer_select_commits().
The test this patch adds reflects this quirk, too. It only tests that
a commit (which didn't receive bitmaps by default) is selected for
bitmaps after changing the value of 'pack.preferBitmapTips' to include
it. Other commits may lose their bitmaps as a byproduct of how the
selection process works (bitmap_writer_select_commits() ignores the
remainder of a window after seeing a commit with the NEEDS_BITMAP flag).
This configuration will aide in selecting important references for
multi-pack bitmaps, since they do not respect the same pack.islandCore
configuration. (They could, but doing so may be confusing, since it is
packs--not bitmaps--which are influenced by the delta-islands
configuration).
In a fork network repository (one which lists all forks of a given
repository as remotes), for example, it is useful to set
pack.preferBitmapTips to 'refs/remotes/<root>/heads' and
'refs/remotes/<root>/tags', where '<root>' is an opaque identifier
referring to the repository which is at the base of the fork chain.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The next patch will add a 'bitmap' test-tool which prints the list of
commits that have bitmaps computed.
The test helper could implement this itself, but it would need access to
the 'bitmaps' field of the 'pack_bitmap' struct. To avoid exposing this
private detail, implement the entirety of the helper behind a
test_bitmap_commits() function in pack-bitmap.c.
There is some precedence for this with test_bitmap_walk() which is used
to implement the '--test-bitmap' flag in 'git rev-list' (and is also
implemented in pack-bitmap.c).
A caller will be added in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can sometimes be useful to see which refs are contributing to the
overall repository size (e.g., does some branch have a bunch of objects
not found elsewhere in history, which indicates that deleting it would
shrink the size of a clone).
You can find that out by generating a list of objects, getting their
sizes from cat-file, and then summing them, like:
git rev-list --objects --no-object-names main..branch
git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
Though note that the caveats from git-cat-file(1) apply here. We "blame"
base objects more than their deltas, even though the relationship could
easily be flipped. Still, it can be a useful rough measure.
But one problem is that it's slow to run. Teaching rev-list to sum up
the sizes can be much faster for two reasons:
1. It skips all of the piping of object names and sizes.
2. If bitmaps are in use, for objects that are in the
bitmapped packfile we can skip the oid_object_info()
lookup entirely, and just ask the revindex for the
on-disk size.
This patch implements a --disk-usage option which produces the same
answer in a fraction of the time. Here are some timings using a clone of
torvalds/linux:
[rev-list piped to cat-file, no bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all |
git cat-file --buffer --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
1459938510
real 0m29.635s
user 0m38.003s
sys 0m1.093s
[internal, no bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all
1459938510
real 0m31.262s
user 0m30.885s
sys 0m0.376s
Even though the wall-clock time is slightly worse due to parallelism,
notice the CPU savings between the two. We saved 21% of the CPU just by
avoiding the pipes.
But the real win is with bitmaps. If we use them without the new option:
[rev-list piped to cat-file, bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --objects --no-object-names --all --use-bitmap-index |
git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'
1459938510
real 0m6.244s
user 0m8.452s
sys 0m0.311s
then we're faster to generate the list of objects, but we still spend a
lot of time piping and looking things up. But if we do both together:
[internal, bitmaps]
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --use-bitmap-index
1459938510
real 0m0.219s
user 0m0.169s
sys 0m0.049s
then we get the same answer much faster.
For "--all", that answer will correspond closely to "du objects/pack",
of course. But we're actually checking reachability here, so we're still
fast when we ask for more interesting things:
$ time git rev-list --disk-usage --use-bitmap-index v5.0..v5.10
374798628
real 0m0.429s
user 0m0.356s
sys 0m0.072s
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of callers within pack-bitmap.c duplicate logic to lookup a
given object id in the bitamps khash. Factor this out into a new
function, 'bitmap_for_commit()' to reduce some code duplication.
Make this new function non-static, since it will be used in later
commits from outside of pack-bitmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The on-disk bitmap format has a flag to mark a bitmap to be "reused".
This is a rather curious feature, and works like this:
- a run of pack-objects would decide to mark the last 80% of the
bitmaps it generates with the reuse flag
- the next time we generate bitmaps, we'd see those reuse flags from
the last run, and mark those commits as special:
- we'd be more likely to select those commits to get bitmaps in
the new output
- when generating the bitmap for a selected commit, we'd reuse the
old bitmap as-is (rearranging the bits to match the new pack, of
course)
However, neither of these behaviors particularly makes sense.
Just because a commit happened to be bitmapped last time does not make
it a good candidate for having a bitmap this time. In particular, we may
choose bitmaps based on how recent they are in history, or whether a ref
tip points to them, and those things will change. We're better off
re-considering fresh which commits are good candidates.
Reusing the existing bitmap _is_ a reasonable thing to do to save
computation. But only reusing exact bitmaps is a weak form of this. If
we have an old bitmap for A and now want a new bitmap for its child, we
should be able to compute that only by looking at trees and that are new
to the child. But this code would consider only exact reuse (which is
perhaps why it was eager to select those commits in the first place).
Furthermore, the recent switch to the reverse-edge algorithm for
generating bitmaps dropped this optimization entirely (and yet still
performs better).
So let's do a few cleanups:
- drop the whole "reusing bitmaps" phase of generating bitmaps. It's
not helping anything, and is mostly unused code (or worse, code that
is using CPU but not doing anything useful)
- drop the use of the on-disk reuse flag to select commits to bitmap
- stop setting the on-disk reuse flag in bitmaps we generate (since
nothing respects it anymore)
We will keep a few innards of the reuse code, which will help us
implement a more capable version of the "reuse" optimization:
- simplify rebuild_existing_bitmaps() into a function that only builds
the mapping of bits between the old and new orders, but doesn't
actually convert any bitmaps
- make rebuild_bitmap() public; we'll call it lazily to convert bitmaps
as we traverse (using the mapping created above)
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning
machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some
object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely
on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization
to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases
where they can work together, and they were taught about them.
* jk/object-filter-with-bitmap:
rev-list --count: comment on the use of count_right++
pack-objects: support filters with bitmaps
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filtering
pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_NONE filtering
bitmap: add bitmap_unset() function
rev-list: use bitmap filters for traversal
pack-bitmap: basic noop bitmap filter infrastructure
rev-list: allow commit-only bitmap traversals
t5310: factor out bitmap traversal comparison
rev-list: allow bitmaps when counting objects
rev-list: make --count work with --objects
rev-list: factor out bitmap-optimized routines
pack-bitmap: refuse to do a bitmap traversal with pathspecs
rev-list: fallback to non-bitmap traversal when filtering
pack-bitmap: fix leak of haves/wants object lists
pack-bitmap: factor out type iterator initialization
Currently you can't use object filters with bitmaps, but we plan to
support at least some filters with bitmaps. Let's introduce some
infrastructure that will help us do that:
- prepare_bitmap_walk() now accepts a list_objects_filter_options
parameter (which can be NULL for no filtering; all the current
callers pass this)
- we'll bail early if the filter is incompatible with bitmaps (just as
we would if there were no bitmaps at all). Currently all filters are
incompatible.
- we'll filter the resulting bitmap; since there are no supported
filters yet, this is always a noop.
There should be no behavior change yet, but we'll support some actual
filters in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since we added reachability bitmap support, we've been able to use
it with rev-list to get the full list of objects, like:
git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index --all
But you can't do so without --objects, since we weren't ready to just
show the commits. However, the internals of the bitmap code are mostly
ready for this: they avoid opening up trees when walking to fill in the
bitmaps. We just need to actually pass in the rev_info to
traverse_bitmap_commit_list() so it knows which types to bother
triggering our callback for.
For completeness, the perf test now covers both the existing --objects
case, as well as the new commits-only behavior (the objects one got way
faster when we introduced bitmaps, but obviously isn't improved now).
Here are numbers for linux.git:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.7: rev-list (commits) 8.29(8.10+0.19) 1.76(1.72+0.04) -78.8%
5310.8: rev-list (objects) 8.06(7.94+0.12) 8.14(7.94+0.13) +1.0%
That run was cheating a little, as I didn't have any commit-graph in the
repository, and we'd built it by default these days when running git-gc.
Here are numbers with a commit-graph:
Test HEAD^ HEAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.7: rev-list (commits) 0.70(0.58+0.12) 0.51(0.46+0.04) -27.1%
5310.8: rev-list (objects) 6.20(6.09+0.10) 6.27(6.16+0.11) +1.1%
Still an improvement, but a lot less impressive.
We could have the perf script remove any commit-graph to show the
out-sized effect, but it probably makes sense to leave it in what would
be a more typical setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old code to reuse deltas from an existing packfile
just tried to dump a whole segment of the pack verbatim.
That's faster than the traditional way of actually adding
objects to the packing list, but it didn't kick in very
often. This new code is really going for a middle ground:
do _some_ per-object work, but way less than we'd
traditionally do.
The general strategy of the new code is to make a bitmap
of objects from the packfile we'll include, and then
iterate over it, writing out each object exactly as it is
in our on-disk pack, but _not_ adding it to our packlist
(which costs memory, and increases the search space for
deltas).
One complication is that if we're omitting some objects,
we can't set a delta against a base that we're not
sending. So we have to check each object in
try_partial_reuse() to make sure we have its delta.
About performance, in the worst case we might have
interleaved objects that we are sending or not sending,
and we'd have as many chunks as objects. But in practice
we send big chunks.
For instance, packing torvalds/linux on GitHub servers
now reused 6.5M objects, but only needed ~50k chunks.
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will use this helper function in a following commit to
tell us if an object is packed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we ran `make hdr-check` with the following patch
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f879697ea3..d8df4e316b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2773,7 +2773,7 @@ CHK_HDRS = $(filter-out $(EXCEPT_HDRS),$(patsubst ./%,%,$(LIB_H)))
HCO = $(patsubst %.h,%.hco,$(CHK_HDRS))
$(HCO): %.hco: %.h FORCE
- $(QUIET_HDR)$(CC) -include git-compat-util.h -I. -o /dev/null -c -xc $<
+ $(QUIET_HDR)$(CC) -include git-compat-util.h -I. -o /dev/null -c -xc $(ALL_CFLAGS) $<
.PHONY: hdr-check $(HCO)
hdr-check: $(HCO)
and with `DEVELOPER=1`, we got the following warning on Arch Linux:
pack-bitmap.h:20:19: error: ‘BITMAP_IDX_SIGNATURE’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
20 | static const char BITMAP_IDX_SIGNATURE[] = {'B', 'I', 'T', 'M'};
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
"Use" the BITMAP_IDX_SIGNATURE variable by making the size of
bitmap_disk_header.magic equal to the size of BITMAP_IDX_SIGNATURE,
thereby eliminating the magic number (4).
An alternative was to simply add MAYBE_UNUSED, however that does not
eliminate the magic number.
Another alternative was to change the definition to
extern const char BITMAP_IDX_SIGNATURE[4];
However, this design was also not chosen as the static definition allows
us to keep the declaration together for readability along with removing
the magic number.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
